Hackers' Pub is a place for software engineers to share their knowledge and experience with each other. It's also an ActivityPub-enabled social network, so you can follow your favorite hackers in the fediverse and get their latest posts in your feed.
Now on stage, the man who published the very first post on the #SocialWeb in May 2008 and is often called the father of the #Fediverse: Evan Prodromou 
@evanEvan Prodromou Co-author of the #ActivityPub protocol at @swf
He presents the structure and dynamics of the social web, including the benefits and disadvantages of this architecture, the products and protocols, people and organizations involved in its development.
#FediMTL #DigitalSovereignty
My own bike is almost exactly the one in the featured photo! And yes, it’s fantastic. https://tech.lgbt/@LilahTovMoon/116121175084366601
Is there anyone you'd like to hear from on season 3?
I think this is one of those things that's stunning, in all the worst ways, and most of them aren't obvious.
Let's start with the basics: there are about 5.5 million trans Americans. This means that *nearly 10% of the entire trans population of the nation* has moved.
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Dot Social is back in the saddle! Here's a quick peek at 
@mikeMike McCue recording a new episode today with 
@rileytestutRiley Testut 
and 
@shanegill.ioShane Gill of 
@altstore
stop fighting with shitty people on the internet
its literally killing you
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2515331123
four young gods, the priestess keeping them all in line, and one lotus that seems a bit strange...
"That better be a data center, and not a concentration camp" is a sentence I never thought I'd utter. Yet, here we are.
Oh..live translations on iPhone is pretty cool. I need to learn how to use this better. Still not going to make comments and quotes until I feel more confident in how this works.
@saskia from 
@newsmastNewsmast Foundation up next.
Newsmast Foundation looks to provide organizations, groups and communities an introduction and onboarding to the Open Social Web. (Among other things like channel.org)
矢印の用途
We've been on X/Twitter for many years, but it's time to reduce our activity there and instead promote Mastodon as our main social media channel now. So we've done just that: https://x.com/LibreOffice/status/2026204949760131158 – Welcome to all our new followers here 😊
The control of the computer is getting shifted from you, who bought the computer, to the seller of the computer.
This should not happen.
You should be angry about this.
You should refuse to be controlled.
You should resist.
OpenAI resets spending expectations, from $1.4T to $600B
Link: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/20/openai-resets-spend-expectations-targets-around-600-billion-by-2030.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47140623
今描いてるやつ
YouTube recently changed Studio to show comments by "most relevant" instead of "newest" by default and I cannot sigh hard hard enough. Newest IS most relevant. I want to see the newest comments.
There is no way to change this setting at this time.
Not everything needs to be algorithmic. This is enshittifying the creator experience.
I'm not using any LLM or "AI" for anything that I write or draw. Never had, and never will.
I'm making this choice because:
• This technology was built by unethically stealing the hard work of millions without any consent or compensation.
• This technology has and is still constantly scraping data, including personal data, from people without their knowledge or consent, in complete disregard of the privacy laws we have to protect us.
• This technology unnecessarily uses vast amounts of energy in a world where using more energy sadly usually means more pollution.
• This technology is working on devaluating labor in order to enrich even more the already rich, aggravating poverty everywhere.
• This technology is misleadingly being sold as a solution to problems it cannot solve.
• This technology is supercharging disinformation and manipulation online, centralizing an incredible power of influence in the hands of a few controlling billionaires.
• This technology is increasingly being used by authoritarian governments in order to surveil and control the people.
• This technology atrophies our creativity and capability to think, as well as harming our social relationships.
• This technology makes my writing voice feel flat and boring. I'd rather learn to live with my human tipos.
• This technology...
@Em0nM4stodonEm 
I have yet to find a personal use case for AI/LLMs.
Last time I checked, they are incapable of sewing alterations for my clients, weeding my yard, cooking for me, or cleaning toilets. I have been trained in research, and still read (real) books.
New: this app warns you if someone is wearing smart glasses nearby.
Meta plans to add facial recognition to its Ray-Ban smart glasses. A 404 Media reader made this app after we showed men filming people w/o their consent, and DHS officials were wearing the glasses https://www.404media.co/this-app-warns-you-if-someone-is-wearing-smart-glasses-nearby/
結構加工してみた系ベンチ
IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report
Link: https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/israeli-soldiers-tel-sultan-gaza-red-crescent-civil-defense-massacre-report-forensic-architecture-earshot
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47136179
Not sure where #Google asked for feedback about their developer verification program, but they surely didn't talk with #FLOSS devs, civil society, privacy organisations or their #Android users
#FDroid did since September, and interacted with folks in the Fediverse, forum, email and in person
They all voiced one opinion: "developer verification must be stopped"
@marcpruxMarc Prud'hommeaux has written an open letter, signed by likeminded organisations who want to #keepandroidopen
Click: https://f-droid.org/2026/02/24/open-letter-opposing-developer-verification.html
On ne m'enlèvera pas de l'idée que tant que l'immense majorité des médias seront possédés par des milliardaires et que leurs revenus sont assurés par la pub, on n'aura pas de débat public sain.
(mébon, si tu dis ça sur une chaîne d'info, on va crier à la censure)
Another update for today: We're planning to revive LibreOffice Online, a web-based version of the suite that users can deploy on their own infrastructure: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/02/24/libreoffice-online-a-fresh-start/
YouTube recently changed Studio to show comments by "most relevant" instead of "newest" by default and I cannot sigh hard hard enough. Newest IS most relevant. I want to see the newest comments.
There is no way to change this setting at this time.
Not everything needs to be algorithmic. This is enshittifying the creator experience.
I've written about serving private files with #django and S3 over at the Lincoln Loop blog: https://lincolnloop.com/blog/serving-private-files-with-django-and-s3/
It’s 2026, so I am legally obligated to write a blog post about AI.
“I am a programmer. Just like I’m a father and a husband and a son and a friend. It’s not something I do, it’s something that is fundamental to the core of my being. Like overly dramatic phrasing.”
"Well, Steve, I think there's more than one way of looking at it. I think it's more like we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it."—Bill Gates
"I'm a mathematical constant and my partner is an exponential function she insists we get differentiated but I am worried should I agree?"
four young gods, the priestess keeping them all in line, and one lotus that seems a bit strange...
"I'm a mathematical constant and my partner is an exponential function she insists we get differentiated but I am worried should I agree?"
@Viss Panic! At the Infosec?
@catsaladCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
@Viss
🎵 I chime in with a "Haven't you people ever heard of commenting your goddamn code? No..."
RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116125972224978960
Wrong. It screeches because you wake it up when it was so so comfy in that roll!
@catsaladCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) it gets so angry it makes Xrays to wreck the day of those that disturbed it. https://www.technologyreview.com/2008/10/23/217918/x-rays-made-with-scotch-tape/
meanwhile, on LinkedIn..
OTD 1982: The founding of #SunMicrosystems.
What if... you had one Fedi account on a generic headless #ActivityPub server that simply hosts and federates your data... and had C2S UIs for microblogging, long form writing, media editing and sharing, link aggregation, games, fitness tracking, and so on, that all used that same Fedi account. Technically, it's a similar concept as ATProto (but no relay and app view) and Solid Pods (but no RDF).
It seems possible... if we can improve the AP C2S API/protocol sufficiently.
Post from changinggraph c2s APP :-)
RE: https://mstdn.social/@stshank/116127400105827134
For me 1Password has not grown significantly in value or capabilities. I am stuck at the old version on Mac to avoid their pig electron app.
While I still depend on parts (migration is hard), the rest of the family is fully on Apple passwords.
The first time you click a Fediverse button on my site, you’ll be asked to enter your home instance — in other words, your own Fediverse server. This can be a self-hosted instance or a platform like Mastodon, Pleroma, and others.
Once that’s set, clicking on an “Also on” syndicated post link will open the corresponding URL directly inside your own Mastodon instance. From there, you’ll see it as a native Mastodon post, which means you can reply, boost, or favourite it just like any other post in your timeline.
The same logic applies to the “Fediverse” sidebar widget. It reads the instance you previously saved in your browser’s localStorage and uses it to trigger a remote follow request directly from your own Mastodon account.
Slide from the talk by Martin Kleppmann 
@martinMartin Kleppmann in today's LoFi/34 (Local-First) Meetup. Check out the talks at:
I had a cookie today!! 
But I ate it...
so now I have no cookie 
@catsaladCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) Can't believe you didn't post this old meme! 😸
When I am made God Emperor, the people who design hotel bathrooms so that you cannot see your face up close in a mirror and also have somewhere to put your makeup will be piled up and set ablaze.
The scary and beautiful thing about AI is it's going to make a lot of stuff become "I can use it, but I have no idea how it works". Many more people drive cars and have no idea what happens when they press on the accelerator, I mean none at all, than know anything about it. I think that is good. Most of us go to the grocery and get food with no clue what is required to get it there. Back when the first market opened there were prob old farts cursing that people didn't know where food came from.
Steel Bank Common Lisp
Link: https://www.sbcl.org/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47140657
Why the KeePass format should be based on SQLite
Link: https://mketab.org/blog/sqlite_kdbx/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47136658
Dear 1Password: Just bite the bullet and say "Important: We’re increasing the cost of your subscription." Because we all know what "updating the cost" in the subject line will mean.
Also, aren't subscriptions supposed to pay for ongoing development and innovation?
Gripes aside, I like 1Password.
Looks like many people may be fleeing 1Password soon, so I thought it’s time I share this blog post from 2021 again:
"Moving from 1Password to iCloud Keychain"
https://simonbs.dev/posts/moving-from-1password-to-icloud-keychain/
Molly, fast asleep on my lap, totally comfortable (somehow)
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